I’ve only read through Fellowship and halfway through Two Towers, so I assume that this scene takes place later in the trilogy. But then why wasn’t it featured in the movies?

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You’ve seen the eye of Sauron back piece, but this one chest piece truly captures the epicness of the film and book series with its amazing detail and vivid colors.

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When the proud father of 8 year old twins Eloy and Oraibi wanted a new tattoo, he didn’t get all liquored up and head to a parlor down by the docks. Instead, he let his kids take a crack at inking up their old man, and from the looks of it they had a blast!

Isaiah Toothtaker has been a professional tattoo artist for around 10 years, and he’s apparently decided to pass the tradition on to his little ones.

The results, as expected, are a bit shaky and very painful. I just hope his kids don’t take to covering themselves up with ink at such an early age.

(NSFW for one moment, when Isaiah curses due to the pain).

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What’s most impressive is the shading of the background (assuming that’s not just back hair). The husband of Boards.ie member whoopsadaisydoodles acquired this tattoo, no doubt to impress him/her.

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Christmas is great, but it certainly seems weird to get a tattoo for a holiday as it only comes around once a year. But I guess not everyone agrees because there are obviously enough weird Christmas tattoos for Oddee to have collected a top 10 list of them.

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As part of a continuing series, Geeks Are Sexy posted a roundup of tattoos sent in by their readers. Kristina contributed her tattoo of Nikola Tesla. There are lots more, including many that are so geeky I don’t recognize them, but you might! Link

Bobby of Cast Iron Tattoos in Orlando, Florida inked this excellent mashup. Now he’ll be even more dangerous when he accesses power sockets.

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As Chewbacca once put it “Grrraaaaawhh wahhr!” Combining these two characters increases their cuteness exponentially. Fashionably Geek reader Jodi chose her design well.

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In 2007, science writer Carl Zimmer wondered how common science tattoos were. He said this on his blog, and the response was massive and ongoing. That grew into a completely new blog, and Zimmer became known as the guy who collected science tattoos. Now he has a book of science tattoos called Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed. The New York Times has a slide show featuring some awesome examples from the book. The tattoo shown belongs to a Princeton graduate student in molecular biology. Link -via The Loom

(Image credit: Science Ink by Carl Zimmer/Sterling Publishing)

Even if you think the idea of a zombie tattoo is kind of silly, you can still appreciate the awesome artwork in many of these great pieces that range from old school to incredibly realistic.

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Praying Hands is an iconic drawing by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Ross Turpin, a tattoo artist who works in Hong Kong, gave our second-favorite droid a reason to pray by ripping his hands off his body.

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Incorporate Them Into Bullets

A true hunter shouldn’t let death stop them from killing more animals. Fortunately, a new company named Holy Smoke is making efforts to ensure the last remnants of your physical remains can still be used to hunt down your favorite prey by incorporating your ashes into hollow-point bullets or shotgun shells. While it’s not among the suggested uses, you could also hire a hitman to use these bullets to take out your most-hated enemy, ensuring even death can’t stop you from exacting your revenge.

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Press Them Into Your Favorite Record

For those people who live and breathe music, there’s no better way to be remembered than to actually become part of their favorite album. And Vinyl will allow you to press your ashes into any record you want, including your own original album. They’ll even write a song for you for an additional fee. As a bonus, you can also have your ashes incorporated into a painting that will be used as the album cover. Now that’s a rocking way to go.

Tattoo Them Into Someone’s Skin

Granted, there have not been any long-term studies about the potential risks of tattoos incorporating ashes, but plenty of people have these memorials without any side effects and ashes are generally sterile, so it’s too much of a hazard as far as we know. Even so, if you’re going to ask a loved one to get a tattoo memorializing you, you might want to make sure they’re ok with the idea first, and, of course, make sure you can find a legitimate tattoo artist that is willing to work with ashes, since many are not.

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Melt Them Into a Diamond

If you or your spouse loves bling, then why not make plans to turn yourself into a sparkly fashion accessory after your death? This is also a good way to ensure that your spouse won’t get remarried for a long time –after all, it’s a little weird to go on a date while wearing the remains of your loved one.

Create Art With Them

Be honest, it’s a little creepy when someone has a giant portrait of a long-deceased relative in their home, but if you really want to take the feeling of unease to another level, try incorporating the ashes of the person into their memorial portrait. Of course, if your family isn’t the type to line hallways with portraits of dead family members, you’re likely to end up decorating the attic.

While there are a number of companies that offer this service, such as Memories From Ashes who did the work above, they seem to go out of business on a regular basis, so you might want to talk to some local artists if you really want to get this done.

Melt and Cut Them Into Stained Glass Designs

If you like the idea of diamonds and artwork made from ashes, but wish there was an option that was slightly less creepy, then a stained glass memorial might be the way to go. This way you can be in the home of your loved one, shining light on them, but not staring down at them or tagging along wherever they go. You’ll be still pretty, but a lot more subtle.

Shoot Them Into Space

Is your favorite song “Rocket Man” by Elton John? Then you might just be the ideal customer for Celestis, a space burial company. For only $2,500, your remains can orbit around Earth. At $10,000, you can ensure they achieve lunar orbit, but if you want to go all out, be sure to save up for the deep space package that will run you $12,500. Wondering who else will share your resting place? Well, LSD advocate Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry have both has their ashes scattered in the night sky.

Burry Them In A Pringles Can

To be fair, this is a pretty strange idea for even the most hardcore junk food addict, but it was certainly an appropriate move for the inventor of the Pringles can. Fredric J Baur first created the prototype for the design in 1966 and in 2008, he was laid to rest inside an empty, original-flavor can, per his dying wish.

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Incorporate Them Into A Frisbee

Baur isn’t the only person to request that his final resting place incorporate his life’s work. While Edward Headrick wasn’t the inventor of the Frisbee, he was the person most responsible for the toy’s success. As a manager at Wham-O, Headrick made a number of improvements to the design and he also invented disc golf.

Before he died, Headrick requested that his kids have his ashes mixed in with a batch of Frisbees and that the proceeds from the special edition discs would be used to establish a disc golf museum. No word yet on the museum, but the Frisbees themselves became quite a popular collector’s item. These days, the two-disc collector’s set costs $200 on Amazon.

Use Them In Comic Book Ink

While plenty of comic book fans might love to have their ashes incorporated into the ink of their favorite titles, so far only one person (that we know of) has been lucky enough to have this wish made into a reality. Of course, it helped that Mark Gruenwald was an editor for Marvel Comics for a long time before he made the strange request. The reprinted version of his 1985 comic Squadron Supreme was printed in 1997 complete with ink featuring trace amounts of its creator.

If you could do anything with your ashes, what would you do? Would you pick any of the items on this list?

We’ve featured tons of geeky tattoos before, but never has one incorporated so many references in one delightful character design. Can you name them all?

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N.B. is a common abbreviation for the Latin phrase nota bene — “note well”. It’s an old style of annotation that has sadly passed out of common use. David, the man with this tattoo, says of its meaning “that everything is better with footnotes.” This lovely sentiment so totally non-MLA standards compliant.

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Krang is a villain in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. He is also hungry. Would you be so kind as to give him a cookie?

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I’m not sure what it means, but I like the idea of Star Wars characters on a totem pole. This tattoo by an artist named Chris 51 won best of show at the Norwich Body Art Festival in the UK.

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Michael Colombo spotted a man on a New York City train wearing this tattoo. He said that it’s a schematic for a guitar amplifier circuit. Colombo notes that such tattoos, no matter how they might look now, could be very useful to a post-apocalyptic society that needs to preserve knowledge. If you were to get a tattoo for this purpose, what information would you preserve?

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That evening, with the new tattoo still raw, Glen bent on one knee in the couple’s living room with a ring in his open palms.

“Michelle wasn’t feeling well that night … she was lying on the couch,” he said.

“I came home and sat down beside her on the knee and said, ‘Hopefully, this will make you feel better’.”

Michelle said, “Are you going to ask me something?”

Glen tactfully replied, “Surely you can read.”

Michelle said ‘yes’.

“I said, ‘Yes! But I don’t know what I think about that [tattoo]‘.”

Video at the link.

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Geeky Tattoos has a roundup of some of the cleverest knuckle tattoos that geeks have acquired. Chris M. got this one in response to the common “Game Over” knuckle tattoo, writing “when it comes to video games, quitting is never an option, unless you’ve got work, a kid, or some other crap to do.” Link | Photo: Knuckle Tattoos

It’s a simple design, but there’s something mesmerizing about this tattoo by Xed Lehead. The shading is really nice work. Link -via F-Yeah Tattoos | Photo: Needles and Sins

Brilliant! I don’t want to see Bruce Wayne cut off his ear, but if that is the necessary price of this tattoo coming into existence, it is worth it. This inking is the work of the Dominika Gardocka i Skorpion Sosnowiec tattoo studio in Poland. Link | Previously: Gotham Starry Night

To be fair, this tattoo will only make sense to those of you who have seen King of Kong and are familiar with Billy Mitchell’s obsessive Donkey Kong antics. If you haven’t seen the movie, go watch it and then revisit this post so you can laugh and laugh.

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You will be emancipated. Resistance is futile. Chris Krahn of Boise Tattoo made this tattoo for Michael Vellotti. Krahn’s website is worth a look. He has some really interesting pieces of work there, including one of Benjamin Franklin as an Old West robber. Link | Artist’s Website

Ten high school friends, upon graduation, decided to get tattoos of puzzle pieces that fit into each other:

After graduating high school, myself and 9 of my best friends got puzzle pieces on the side of our ribcages to represent our commitment throughout middle school and high school. Most of us had been friends since 6th grade, some before. We all got something inside our puzzle piece to make ours unique. All the pieces fit together, and we had a blast getting them.

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We’ve posted clever Hello Kitty tattoos before, such as Hello Kitty Jesus, Hello Kitty Hannibal Lecter, and Hello Kitty Darth Vader. Here’s a unique take on the motif: the outline of famous cat as the canvas for a nautical scene. Link

This clever tattoo by Valio Ska makes good use of amputation scarring, don’t you think? Kudos to the owner for his sense of humor.

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Flavorwire has assembled a cool slideshow of people with artist-inspired tattoos, from the pop art of Andy Warhol to Banksy’s graffiti work. Other artists represented include Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, Gustav Klimt, Georgia O’Keeffe and Frida Kahlo. I think the colors in the Starry Night-inspired sleeve above are just gorgeous.

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Certainly a good premise for a tattoo is an inspirational, heroic figure. Super Grover from Sesame Street will do the trick. This particular tattoo was made by Cecil Porter of Murrieta, California.

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As a testament for his love of Chicago, this man had a map of the city’s train system tattooed on his arm:

I absolutely LOVE Chicago. It makes me so extremely happy and proud to call myself a citizen of this amazing city.

I got this because, not only is it such a staple of Chicago, but also because fellow Chicagoans can recognize it immediately.

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Jully Nascimento from Brazil got this QR code inked on her arm. When scanned, it reads “hold on”. That’s the name of a song by Good Charlotte that was meaningful to her in her youth.

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Yes, really! The post isn’t mislabeled. This is tattoo of a protein named after the Sega video game character. The man with this image writes:

I got the tattoo because I am a cell biology student and love the ridiculous naming of proteins done by the geneticists which discover it. I figured, for my first tattoo, it might as well be something completely unique. I love it though, great conversation starter and very few people have any idea of what the hell it is at first glance.

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Someday, we will tell our grandchildren of the chainsaw-augmented dinosaur menace of our youth. We will speak of the danger that was a part of our everyday lives — a danger that they will are free of because of our labors. And they will believe us, because we will create the Wikipedia entries necessary to back up the claim.

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cranberryzero of I Heart Chaos just got inked, and his tattoo has a special feature. It can be scanned by augmented reality readers to produce an image from a Nintendo 3DS game. You can see a video of it rendering at the link.

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Previously: Augmented Reality Cookies

The whole Snow White story — well, the Disney version, anyway — is told in this lovely back tattoo. I’m not completely sure who’s responsible, but it’s been attributed to an artist named Ping who lives in Taiwan.

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We can assume that Jar Jar is so despised that trophy such hunting is legal even on Naboo. This tattoo has been attributed to Wes at Darkside Tattoo in White House, Tennessee.

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In retrospect, it may have been a bad idea for Anthony Garcia to commemorate his first killing by having it inscribed on his chest. When a LA County homicide investigator was later looking through pictures of gang members, he noticed something important:

Each key detail was right there: the Christmas lights that lined the roof of the liquor store where 23-year-old John Juarez was gunned down, the direction his body fell, the bowed street lamp across the way and the street sign — all under the chilling banner of RIVERA KILLS, a reference to the gang Rivera-13.

As if to seal the deal, below the collarbone of the gang member known by the alias “Chopper” was a miniature helicopter raining down bullets on the scene.

Lloyd’s discovery of the tattoo in 2008 launched a bizarre investigation that soon led to Anthony Garcia’s arrest for the shooting. Then sheriff’s detectives, posing as gang members, began talking to Garcia, 25, in his holding cell. They got a confession that this week led to a first-degree murder conviction in a killing investigators had once all but given up hope of solving.

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+1 for originality. This tattoo mashes up Cthulhu and Rich Uncle Pennybags, the mascot from the board game Monopoly.

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The Spoctocus can neck pinch eight people simultaneously and squeeze itself through the narrowest of Jeffries tubes with ease. This tattoo has been attributed to artist Daniel Limon of Tuscon.

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UPDATE 3/31/11: In the comments, truth points out that deviantART user stablercake may be the original designer of the Spoctocus. Thanks, truth!

The Enigma machine was a series of encoding devices used by Nazi Germany and broken by Polish and British military intelligence before and during World War II. Ross submitted this photo to Geeky Tattoos of his tattoo, taking the form a wiring diagram for one of the Enigma machines.

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Shelley Jackson is publishing her short story “Skin” in a unique format — tattooed on human skin. For several years, she’s been recruiting volunteers to get one word each of the 2,095-word short story tattooed on their bodies. Each word is written in a classic book font in black text.

It’s a transcendent activity for the author and the participants, as Jackson expresses in an interesting stipulation presented at the end of the volunteer agreement:

From this time on, participants will be known as “words”. They are not understood as carriers or agents of the words they bear, but as their embodiments. As a result, injuries to the printed text, such as dermabrasion, laser surgery, tattoo cover work or the loss of body parts, will not be considered to alter the work. Only the death of words effaces them from the text. As words die the story will change; when the last word dies the story will also have died. The author will make every effort to attend the funerals of her words.

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He splashed out HUNDREDS of pounds on the tattoos after seeing Roberts in her film Erin Brockovich.

In the film Roberts plays a legal assistant who nearly single-handedly brings down a power company.

Miljenko, 56, said he wanted to get the tattoos after being inspired by various scenes in the Oscar-winning movie.

You can see several pictures of Miljenko’s tattoos at the link. I’ve left a puppy as the picture for this post because (1) The Sun doesn’t like other sites using their photos and (2) you might not want to see the pictures if you’re eating.

You’re welcome.

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Well, at least this tattoo serves a practical purpose. English Russia brings us several pictures of one man who decided to get an eye chart tattooed on his back.

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About 1 in 2.5 adults under the age of 40 has been inked. The Washington Post presents an interactive infographic illustrating the major styles of tattooing that can be found in the United States today. At the link, hovering over any area on the statue’s body shows a closer view of each style.

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I like this guy’s sense of humor. He’s lost a toe, but he can joke about it.

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Need to beef up your baby’s street cred? There’s no faster way than a few nice tats! Here’s the easiest way to get your baby inked: Baby Tattoos temporary tattoos from the NeatoShop.

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It’s a jungle out there in the blogosphere, and if you’re going to survive, you’ve got to be tough. Show the world you’re hardcore, like Geekologie reader Jian did by getting this tattoo.

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‘I wanted a permanant reminder of the amazing series so I got a small tattoo and that turned into what I have got now.’

Despite having her whole back coverered in Stephenie Meyer’s creations the sun has not gone down on her inky obsession.

She plans to save £2,000 more to spend another 12 hours under the needle as she eclipses her whole torso with the gothic tribute.

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Flickr user Nadia Prigoda-Lee snapped this picture at a Modest Mouse concert in Toronto. Two of her commenters say that it’s the lyrics to the Björk song “Bachelorette” written in Braille.

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+1 for original thinking and creative use of body hair. Surely this is the epitome of playful elegance in body modification.

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Todd from Cleveland, Ohio submitted this picture of his latest tattoo to Geeky Tattoos. The only thing that could improve it is a cursor hovering over a right-click menu.

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